ACN vs. PDD, IBM, SPGI, UBER, MELI, TRI, IT, CTSH, BAH, and LDOS
Should you be buying Accenture stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Accenture include PDD (PDD), International Business Machines (IBM), S&P Global (SPGI), Uber Technologies (UBER), MercadoLibre (MELI), Thomson Reuters (TRI), Gartner (IT), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), and Leidos (LDOS).
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and PDD (NASDAQ:PDD) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
PDD has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Accenture. PDD is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Accenture, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Accenture received 736 more outperform votes than PDD when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.30% of users gave Accenture an outperform vote while only 59.20% of users gave PDD an outperform vote.
PDD has a net margin of 26.93% compared to Accenture's net margin of 10.89%. PDD's return on equity of 45.04% beat Accenture's return on equity.
In the previous week, PDD had 28 more articles in the media than Accenture. MarketBeat recorded 46 mentions for PDD and 18 mentions for Accenture. Accenture's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat PDD's score of 0.75 indicating that Accenture is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Accenture presently has a consensus target price of $380.24, suggesting a potential upside of 29.43%. PDD has a consensus target price of $188.33, suggesting a potential upside of 24.50%. Given Accenture's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Accenture is more favorable than PDD.
Accenture has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PDD has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
75.1% of Accenture shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.1% of PDD shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Accenture shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of PDD shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Accenture beats PDD on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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